History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

are accepted, provided that they are honest and discrete (25). And Michel Maïer adds: So
that the Rosicrucian brotherhood accept a pupil, it is necessary that the desire of science and
the goodwill received confirmation by means of a illuminative demonstration (18). Let us
note here that Maïer represents especially the side pythagorician of this tradition. " There is
a Company whose statutes and mysteries are, for the most curious scholars and deepest,
an impenetrable secrecy. Under the terms of these statutes, each member is held to guide,
help, advise the descendants most moved back of those which, as your ancestor, took a
share, if humble and so sterile that it is, with mysterious work of the Command. We are
engaged to direct them towards their happiness; more still, if they order it to us, we must
accept them like disciples (7). " To drink with long features the interior life, it is to see the
higher life; to live in spite of time, it is to live universal life. That which discovers the elixir
discovers what is in space, because the spirit which vivifies the body strengthens the
directions. There is attraction in the elementary principle of the light. In the lamps of the
Rosicrucian brotherhood, fire is the pure and elementary principle. Light the lamps while you
open the mud which contains the elixir, and the light attracts with you these beings whose
this light is the life. Be wary of the fear. The fear is the enemy mortal of science " (7 '). From
the point of view of the development symbolic system of the magic capacities, one will be
able to study with fruit Akedysseril de Villiers of Isle-Adam. The new pages of Zanoni will
show the remainder; and, finally, the Indicator board of same Villiers will reveal us a little the
last purposes of the heart drawn up in this school. " to raise the veil, this heart with which you
listen has need to be retempered in enthusiasm and to be purified of any terrestrial desire.
It is not without reason only those which one called chastity, contemplation magicians in any
time, any country, prescribed and the fast, like the sources of any inspiration. When the
heart is thus prepared, science can come to help it, the sight can be made more
penetrating, the more sensitive nerves, the prompter and more open spirit; the element
itself, the air, space can become, by certain processes of high science, more palpable and
more distinct. It is not there of the magic, as thinks it the vulgar credulous one. I already said
it, the magic (or science which makes violence with nature) does not exist: it is only the
science which controls nature. However there are, in space, of the million beings, not
precisely spiritual, because all have, like the invisible animalcules with the naked eye, the
certain shapes of the matter, but of a so thin matter, if subtle, if delicate that it is not, so to
speak, that an impalpable of the spirit, more untied and more light envelope thousand
times than these wire air gnomists. And, however, there is, between these races and these
tribes various, of the differences more marked than between the Greek and Kalmouck; their
attributes differing, their power differs. See in the water drop what a variety of animalcules!
how much is formidable colossi! some however are atoms compared to the others. It is the
same for the inhabitants for the atmosphere; the ones have a supreme science, the others a
horrible mischievousness; the ones are hostile to the man, like the daemons, other soft the
and benevolent ones, like messengers and mediators between the sky and the ground.
That which wants to enter in connection with these various species resembles to the
traveller who wants to penetrate in unknown grounds. He is exposed to strange dangers,
with terrors which he cannot suspect. The communication established once, I cannot protect
you from the chances to which your voyage is exposed. I then to direct you towards the
free paths of the incursions of the keenest enemies. Only and by yourself, it will be
necessary all to face, all for you to venture; but, if you like at this point the life that your single
concern is to continue to live, does not import with a which aim, by reviving your nerves and
your blood by the vivifying elixir of the alchemist, then why to expose you to the dangers
of intermediate spaces? Because the elixir, which infuses in the body a more sublime life,
makes the directions so subtle that the phantoms of the air become for you perceptible with
the sight and hearing; so that, without a preparation which makes you gradually able to resist
these phantoms and to defy their mischievousness, a gifted life of this faculty would be the
most terrible calamity which the man could attract himself. For this reason elixir, though
composed of the simplest plants, can without danger being taken only by that which
passed by the most severe tests. More still, it is which, frightened and terrified by the